I can’t get the subscription field to list the location I want to subscribe to. Searching the city exactly how it appears in the general search brings up a bunch of too specific places. It’s easy to find just as a general search so I have the ID, can I use this to add a subscription?
place_id=10027
Subscriptions won’t allow you to follow a place with no boundaries. Cincinnati is currently a point-place, i.e. it has no boundaries and no observations, so you can’t follow it.
Probably there should be created a new place for it, with current boundaries.
That’s strange, somehow a city of 300,000 people was never entered as a location in the database?
I thought this was just page 1 of the results, but I guess it’s the only results…
https://www.inaturalist.org/places/cincinnati
Countries, states (and state-level places), and counties (and county-level places) are imported from GADM. A few other places have been brought in systematically (e.g. US National Parks), but anything else, including cities/towns, is pretty much just from individual users entering them. If you have a kml for the boundaries of Cincinnati, please feel free to upload them.
I’m trying to figure out how to export the kml now. Searching “cincinnati” on google maps gives you the borders by default, exaclty what I want. But when I try making a map for exporting I only get a single point as the location. Why would google make this so difficult?
I guess Cincinnati will remain a non-location. I’ve tried a few map sites and can’t get a kml exported of the relevant borders and making this manually is a waste of time.
Thanks
Well, honestly I have to say it’s not that big to draw, but probably there is a file somewhere, they are just hard to find very often.
I made a place for it, I just need someone on staff to merge it into the existing place. Shouldn’t take too long.
Thank you, what method did you use to get the borders?
You can also see if the state or city itself has a KML available.
That’s what I did for Round Rock, TX (there were KMLs on the city’s own webpage, as well as other GIS data).
[addendum: Oops, didn’t read far enough; @jwidness already found a way. Still, checking with the city/state/local universities/ etc is a good way to get a hold of KMLs. ]
Cincinnati’s website is… not particularly user friendly. Here are some interesting datasets for the area that could be useful. (I don’t know much about GIS data but maybe turning some of the neighborhoods or city/county parks into places could be a fun way to get myself to learn - will set a reminder to come back to this thread again.)
Neighborhood Boundaries
https://cagisportal.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=572561553c9e4d618d2d7939c5261d46
Countywide Parks & Greenspaces
https://cagisportal.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=f41afa1a4fa94e7f99c7cbc6fe75484b
OK, I’ve merged the places, thanks for creating the palce with the boundary, @jwidness. It’s place 154920
If a place has a checklist, you can subscribe to it from the place’s page:
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